Ampersand & Ampersand (A&A) has won a Design 100 Silver Award for healthcare for its work with King’s College Hospital NHS Trust (KCH) on an app that helps patients with chronic illnesses.
The Design 100 Awards for Healthcare acknowledge mobile products that make health information and medical services easily accessible.
As such, the award recognises both the creative excellence of the A&A design team and the important work that KCH has done to make healthcare more patient-friendly, according to A&A.
Designed for the rheumatology department of KCH, A&A said its iOS app acts as a digital hub through which patients can find information they might need relating to their consultants, their diagnosis and everything in between.
Patients are equipped with a detailed internal map of the hospital, an appointment booking feature and access to information about past and future appointments allowing them to track their treatment over time.
James Galloway, honorary consultant with the rheumatology department at KCH, said: “Our main aim in commissioning this app was to provide our chronic patients with more visibility and control throughout what is often a lengthy and complicated treatment.
“Patient uptake has so far been really positive and we hope that the feedback we are now collecting will allow us to add a host of other useful features to the next version of the app.”
Nader Alaghband, CEO of A&A, said: “It was a pleasure working with James and his colleagues at KCH to craft an application that works so well to advance patient outcomes. We look forward to taking the app forward in the future.”
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